Lots of other topics for other areas so I figured I’d try to start one for SW Missouri. Lakes like Table Rock, Bull Shoals, Stockton, Pomme, Truman, LOZ, and anything in between. I haven’t been on the water this week but made it out to Table Rock last Thursday afternoon and fished around Shell Knob. Water temp was 70-72 and caught a few fish a few different ways. The water was up in the bushes but doubt it will stay up long with the core dropping the lake to 915 by Nov. 1st. Caught some spots on a finesse jig on secondary points 15-20ft deep. Caught a few largemouth throwing a spinnerbait up in the bushes and had a dink smallie up shallow too. 

Sure, I'll bite.  I don't get to go out as often as I'd like, but I'll post after a trip.

 

I got rained on last Saturday on LOZ.  I was getting water temps of 68-69 from about the 12 mm on the Osage to up the Gravois arm.  Didn't do very well, caught a couple of dinks and one crappie off the end of some docks.

Going on the James Tuesday for Smallies. We got three days of rain and really cooling off. We will see what the bite holds.

Went to Stockton yesterday. Water temp was 58 in the morning and saw 61 in the afternoon. Caught fish throwing moving baits. Mainly the rock crawler and wiggle wart but did have a few early up shallow on a spinnerbait. Water was was stained the further down the river arms you went. We had quite a few fish but not a lot of keepers. Beautiful day on the water nevertheless. My buddy had the best two fish of the day out of the back of the boat. 

Here are some Bull Shoals fish. Caught 30-40 ft deep on jigs last weekend. Check out my partner's 3 lb mean mouth. Best 5 were 15 lbs.

Went on what was probably my last LOZ trip for a while on Saturday.  I saw water temps from 58 to 60.5 degrees in the gravois and off of the lower osage.  We caught a couple lmb on an underspin and a spook.

Fished Stockton the last two weekends (Nov. 2nd & 9th). Had a club tournament championship on the second and we got second with 14.05 and then fished a USA Bassin tournament on the 9th which we won with 14.22 and big bass with 4.60. Water only changed a couple degrees in a week and was 53.5 and warmed to 55 on Saturday. Ran the same stuff both weekends and caught lots of keeper smallies but the green ones were harder to come by. When they did bite they were usually there right ones we needed though. I did have a smallie that was over 3lbs though which is always fun. 

Headed to Table Rock on Friday. Hope to have a good report.

Anyone on Stockton lake recently? If so what you fishing for and what you catching them on? 

On 2/10/2020 at 1:56 PM, Tyler. said:

Anyone on Stockton lake recently? If so what you fishing for and what you catching them on? 

I’ve heard the jerkbait and a rig bite has been pretty good. I haven’t been out there in a couple months. Not sure about the crappie fishing. Walleye should start showing up around points around the dam pretty soon. 

Haven’t posted in a while here. Everything is high and it’s all still rising. Bull Shoals has been lights out flipping a stick worm into flooded brush and log jams. Stockton has been decent flipping flooded bushes and an ok top water bite. Haven’t been on table rock in about a month but it was on fire last time I was there. Seems like a lot of fish are done spawning but there are still some late spawners to be found. 

On 2/10/2020 at 1:56 PM, Tyler. said:

Anyone on Stockton lake recently? If so what you fishing for and what you catching them on? 

I fished Stockton on the 19th in the afternoon.  I was using elaztech worms on a new “leggy” jig that I am working on.  I had 14 but had lots of bumps that wouldn’t take it.  All of the fish were roof hooked.
 

They ranged from 4.5 down.  The best 5 totaled 14.5 #.